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DEMOBILISATION PLANS.

NEARLY COMPLETED FOR KWANG PROVINCES.

SMALL WELL TRAINED FORCE.

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MILITARY CHIEFS CONFER RING AT CANTON,

FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. ↑

CANTON, Feb. 96th Marshal Tsai Hain will lease Canton to attend the Third . Kuo- mintang Delegates' Conference in Nanking, in about ten days' time." Meanwhile daily conferences are in progress here with regard to de: mobilisation in the Leung Kwan provinces. Each Army is to be "reduced to a "thik or division and -each Army commander will be re- duced to Divisions! commander, A large number of senior officers will also have to accept reductions in Tank on a corresponding scale.

AUSTRIAN INJURES A CHINESE.

CONSIDERATION OF CAN TON AUTHORITIES.

ARRESTED AND TRANSFERRED TO GERMAN CONSULATE.

(YROM OCH CHINESE CORRESPONDENT, Į

CANTON, 'Feb. 28th.

While motor cycling on the Band on Monday, Karl Selfeid, a young Austrian, ran over and seriously hurt a Chinese.

The Chinese was taken to the Municipal Hospital and the young Austrian was placed under arrest Station. There it was found that and taken to, the Central. Polica he had broken his leg and he was removed in a car to the Foreign

diers and a fellow-countryman Office under the care of two sol

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27th, 1929.

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THE SHENG KUNG PAO FORTUNE.

SEIZED BY KIANGSU GOVERNMENT,

TREASURER `ARRESTED TAKEN TO NANKING.

Shanghai February 21st:-In spite af vigorous denials by the Kiangsu Provincial Government of the charge that they were scheming to seize the immense fortune left says the 4.-C. Daily Vetes, an order by the late Mr. Sheng Kung Pao, has now been issued by these same. officials for the detention of the Hitherto they Sheng properties

have been after the charity funds. These are now exempted and it is the family property which is to be seized.

Provincial Governmen: tried to use The story of how the Kiangsu the Provisional Court to sets the Sheng bequests, and would have done so but for the Council's inter- vention was fully fold in the M.-C. Daily News, and there is no doubt At the Foreign Office he said that the chief reason for the Kinng- that the accident was due to at Government's driving Judge Loo failure of the brakea of his machine. Hsing Yuna from the Provisiona: arrived at Canton a week ago. He to be a party to the sciting of the He was a tourist and had only Court was that he steadily refused

was out for a sight-seeing, ride when Sheng fortune. the mishap occurred.

The authorities were anxious to do everything they could for him and, as the jails in Canton are not modernised, and Austrian subjects extraterritorial no longer enjoy rights, Salicid was transferred to the German Consulate,

The offender will probably be and an amount covering damage to the injured Chinese; "this Leing the latter's demand.

The demobilisation of each Army will be carried out by its own General and staff, the disbard ment plan being submitted to Head quarters of the 8th Military Route, who will exercise a general super- vision over the whole

process. All the soldiers will be disbanded and the best of the men, as regards character, physique and intelligence will be re-enlisted, given a thorough military education and absorbed | WANDERING SCHOLARS OF into the standing army of the Republic. The older men, and the men of weaker physique will re- ceive a small gratuity and be sent to their homes. A number of the others will be employed by the

Miss M. B. Watts, M.A., deliver- Government on the new roads and --other reconstruction work

ed a lecture yesterday afternoon in la Kwangtung and Kwangsi.

the University Union, Assembly When the scheme has been rar-Room on The Wandering Scho- ried through the two provinces will lars of the Middle Ages" have only four shiha or divisions, which will be under the present Army. Commanders. General Chen Tasi Tong, Wong Shiu Hung. Chen Ming Shu and Hau King Toog.

CANTON HEADQUARTERS RETAINED.

THE MIDDLE AGES.

LECTURE AT THE UNIVER. SITY.

tude towards these studies.

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MURDER TRIAL AT WEIHAIWEI.

SEQUEL TO ARMED ROBBERY.

A CORRESPONDENT.]

[FROM

Weihaive, Feb. 18th-On the was 11th instant Wang Ssu Li brought to trial before. Sir Peter Grain for the murder of Lu Chu Hsiao, a constable, and sentenced to death. The case for the Chown vocate, Mr. A. G. Mossop, Mr. J. was undertaken by the Crown ad- MoNeill appearing for the defence, and the following residents were empanelled as a jury:-Messrs. A. Clark, D. Clark, Newton, Oliver and Wyatt.

Story of the Crime.

shop after dark on December 18th, Ku Tung. a sampan "man, was passing behind the Deh Chang when he noticed a man perched on a high wall who shouted to him that he was to tell the police that there were armed robbers in the shop in froat Ku immediately went to the Wukou Pier and in- formed Constable 103. The latter hurried to the Police Station, near stables on duty there: telephoned at hand; informed the two MK-

to Headquarters for assistance: Order of Conáscation.

loaded his ride: and arrived near the scene of the robbery in time to Yesterday the Chinese prees pub-notice five men leaving the shop. lished a circular order which the He shouted to them to stop, but has now issued to various local drawing their pistols, and it was Kiangsu Provincial Government they went on, three of the party publie organizations, notifying not possible to use his rife as there them that all the Sheng estate, com-

were too many people on the road. able securities, valued at between rived: nine constables commandeer prising lands, tenements and valu. However, reinforcements 200m ar- Tls. 11,000,000 and Tls. 12,000,000 ed two carriages and the pursuit are to be detained pending inves was continued, more police follow- tigation and confiscation, and warning on foot. Wang Ssu Li was ing them against negotiating these overtaken on the road and, as there The securities include large hold was something suspicious about the ings in the China Merchants S.N.

man, the occupants of one of the Co., the Han-Yeb-Ping Iron & Coal carriages stopped with a view to Co., and the Commercial Bank of

searching him, In the struggle China, as well as a score of other that ensued the fatal shot was fred. commercial undertakings

Accused, after receiving the usual caution, elected to make a state ment to Inspector A. L. Whittaker on the day following his arrest in which he admitted that he had twn leaded pistols on his person and that he fired the shot through his clothing with intent to kill.

The following is a translation of the crder:-

"Thorough investigations have been made into the affairs of the late-Sheng Hsuan Huai (Sheng Kung Pao), and it has been found that Sheng Hsuan Huai was an former Manchu

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THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

THE HSIN. WAH INQUIRY.

SHAREBROKERS AND STAMP DUTIES.

At to-morrow's meeting of the Legislative Council, the For, Sir Henry E. Pollook, K.O., win ask the following question

What action does the Govern. ment intend to take in connection with the recommendations of the Coroner's Jury at the Hsin Wah Inquiry.

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The Hon Mr. J. P. Braga will ask the following questions→→→

Will the Honourable the Colonial Treasurer state, under separate heads, the amount of revenue collected by the Treasury on account of stamp duties in connection with share transactions in respect of-

(1) Sharebrokers:

memes. for

cash transactions. (ii) Sharebrokers' contract noter .....for forward transactions. (i) Instrument of Transfer for the following periods, viz.: (1) the year 1924,

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(2) first and second half, respectively, of the year 1923,

(3) the year 1826, (4) the year 1927,

(5) the year 1999, and separ ately for each month, from January to April inclusive, of last year,

(6) January, 1929. The Colonis] Secretary will move:—

Committee No. 1 dated January That the Report of the Finance 24th, 1929, be adopted.

ed.

That the Jurors List be consider.

The Attorney-General will move the first reading of-

An Ordinance to amend the Supreme Court Ordinance, 1873."

An Ordinance to amend the Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1881"

"An Ordinance to amend the law relating to the taxation of tobacco."

"An Ordinance to amend the Watchmen Ordinance, 1928.

"An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law with respect to unclaimed balances.”

The amendment to the Supreme In the preliminary trial before District Officer, Wang Ssu Li with Governor power to appoint a ter Mr. W. L. B. Sparrow, Junior Court Ordinance 1873 gives the drew his self-incriminating state-porary judge in any cale in which

he considers it desirable. At pre ment and asserted that he had re moved the pistol from his belt with sent an extra judge can only be the intention of throwing it away; appointed on a vacancy arising by that he had not time to do so; and death or otherwise, in the case of that the violent act of a constable illness or temporary absence, or for who also grasped the weapon under the purpose of the Full Court his coat had, caused him to press Ordinance, 1912. the trigger accidentally. He added that two others of the robber band were only about 10, paces behind

There is now no power to appoint & judge owing to pressure of judi- cial work or if a judge has had to undertake special duties. The Governor can further, under the proposed ordinance, end the sp•. pointment at his discretion.

$300 la Motor-Tyres. "One of these two, Chang Hung Chang, made good his escape: but The Ordinance to amend the the other, Tian. Yi Hein, was sub-taxation of tobacco imposes a flat sequently arrested at an inn with rate on the imported new leaf in. 840 in fiis belt and $300 inside a stead of on the manufactured motor tyre, part of the loot not article, to mention an automatic pistol and some ammunition, also concealed in this unusual receptacle. Tien was taken to prison in a weak and emaciated condition and died two days later-the canse of death, given in the medical certificate, being inanition and early pacu monia."

The amendment to the Watch- men's Ordinance places watchmen engaged by the Air Force in the same category as those employed by the Admiralty and War Depart ments.

The iccturer said that she wished | officia! · of heads; what the wandering scholars tions. During his tenure of office, to develop her theme under two Government, who held high posi studied, and what was their atti-it has been discovered, that the The late Sheng Hsuan Huai embezzled middle ages, she continued, ja aand misappropriated considerable certain acnse begso many thousands money from the public funds. of years ago in Greece, and “when

Treasurer and Property Seized. Greece was conquered she took captive her conqueror "-Rome, by

"This being the case, the Kiang Marshal Là Tsai Usin has also passing on her culture. Latin was su Provincial Government has re- decided that it would be better to the medium of learning in the ceived orders from the President, postpone the proposed abolition of Middle Ages and the literary back-General Chiang Rai Shek, to make the 6th Military Route Headquar-ground was classical and pagan in a further and more thorough in- ters. In view of this great disbaad- spirit, for the scholars looked on quiry and, to this end, Mr. Li Phim when he was arrested! ment scheme before them it is the classical authors as mon of Tsang, treasurer of the estate of necessary to have a strong central their own time, not as long dead. the late Sheng Henan Husi, has ised headquarters in Canton to

The effect of the study of the been arrested and ordered to be direct affairs in the two provinces, classica could be traced in the lyric detained pending trial Pending and the present Headquarters is verse and in the sonorous prose this inquiry and the confiscation of admirably equipped for the task. writing of the Middle Ages.

the properties of the late Sheng I will be remembered that Nan-

The Church via to a certain Kung Pao, the Kiangsu Provincial. ing decided to dispense with all extent antagonistic to learning hs. Government has issued an order for Military Routes throughout the

cause of this classical and pagan the detention of all the properties country and to replace them with foundation but it was due to the left by the late Sheng Kung Pao, Troop Disbandment Districts. The Church that the old manuscripts and are now owned, or should be two Kwang Provinces, which con had been preserved. Owing to this owned, by Messrs. Sheng En Yi, stitute the 8th Military Route, have admixture of classical and religious Sheng Chung Yi, Sheng Shang Yi, been declared a Disbandment The influences the twa chist themes of Sheng Yu Chang and Sheng Yu Yu, trict but no headquarters under medieval writers were the lives of Misses Sherg Ai Yi and Sheng that designation have been formed the Saints and the war between Foong Yi and Mesdames Sheng and the Marshal has consequently virtue and vice, or in other words (formerly the Misses Chang and retained the present organisation. between the pagan spirit of the Haiao). The philanthropic founda

General Wong Shiu Hung. Com classics and the Christian teaching tion funds are excepted. mander of the 15th Army and of the Church. Spenser's "Faery "The Kiangsu Provincial Governs Chairman of the Kwangsi Prom Queen" is an example of the latter. mest bereby notify you that, during cial Government, in still in Canton,

The Church always disapproved the period of the execution of this taking a prominent part in the of the Wandering Scholars, al. order, and the investigation and demobilisation conference. In a though they were clerks, Le. cleries possible confiscation of the estate, interview with the Press the of minor order, because they were nobody will be permitted to par General said that he will be lear undisciplined and often merely chase any or all the properties left ing for Kwangs at the same time vagabonds and drunkards. These by the late Sheng Kung Pao. These under must not be negotiated for either that Marshal Li sets out for Nan wandering scholars ved king. By that time preliminaries their own laws and gained a live secretly or publicly and any person will be completed and he hopes to lihood by singing, mimeing and beg-found doing this shall be beld re- go ahead with the demobilisation ging, and in 1231 A.D. they wer

sponsible for the same. Should any in his province on the lines indic repudiated by the Church. There person or persons keep secret their

were, however, good scholars among will be considered as having taken client was also a finè performancing on the wall of his room.

purchase of such properties, they part in corrupt practices and all such properties will be confiscated. The public is hereby notified that they must not be involved in this matter."

ated.

CANTON POLITICAL COUNCIL.

The Canton Political Council will be wound up before March 15th, according to information from c cial ciroles. This will be in accord- ance with the resolution passed by the 5th Plenary Session of the Kuomintang. Marshal Li has or dered Mr. Kin Taiang Tsing to have. all the affairs of the Council closed before the middle of March.

NEW GUNBOAT FOR

CANTON.

DETAILS OF TRAPSOON.

them and their lyrics were the beginning of English poetry. We owed it to them that the imagina- tion of Europe was kept alive.

ATTEMPTED ROBBERY ON

A JUNK.

CASTLE PEAK INCIDENT.

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Li Said to be in Wanking. No further details are available of the arrest of Mr. Li Pu Tseng, treasurer to the estate, but it is un- derstood that be has been removed to Nanking "for trial." No charge „has however, been preferred against him up to the present time. Meanwhile, members of the Sheng family have declined to make any statement with regard to the Kiang- 8 Provincial Government's order, with is given above.

S.P.C.A. FANCY DRESS BALL.

UNDER PATRONAGE OF HE. THE GOVERNOR.

The amendment to the Bank- rupter Ordinance brings the law of the Colony "into fine in two respects with the English bank- ruptcy law.

· POCKET.

In his final speech Mr. Mossop presented the case against Wang Sau Li in the clear and logical method with which Weihaiwei juries have grown familiar. The Y.M.C.A. RESIDENT ROBBED. facts were quite clear. Acensed had a pistol in his right hand, 200 STOLEN FROM TROUSERS' loaded and cocked: it was admit ted that he and no one else had pressed the trigger. It was for the A report was made to the Ponce jury to decide whether the shot had yesterday by Mr. Murphy, resi been fired-s ke contended-inten-dent at the European Y.M.C.A., tionally; or accidentally. Whether Kowloon, who stated that 8200 had Wang was guilty of the crime of been stolen from the pocket of his murder, or manslaughter.

Mr. MoNeill's defence of his trousers, which had been left hang- and his contention that it was a case of manslaughter, not murder, seems to have made a marked im-betrayeth thee." He was obvious "Who art thou? Thy speech pression on the jury who, followingly not a local man. At this point the summing up by the learned the accountant took fright and Judge, took over an hour to reach made significant signals behind his a verdict of guilty on the capital guest's back. The latter was in charge.

mediately arrested and proved to be the very person the police were There was a dramatic touch about secking! Wang had re-entered the the arrest of Wang 8su Tanginn under armed robber, Cheng Pei Chou, with false partienlars in the regis different name and Assistant Manager, and Wang Chao ter as to the nature of his busi Chen, bookkeeper of a local im ness, etc.

Farther: Sentences.

An attempt to" rob a junk at Castle Peak was reported to the Police on Monday night by the

in-keepers keep records giving Sau Tong pleaded guilty. In pro It is a strict regulation that all.. Before Bir Peter Grain, Wang owner of the vessel. It appeared

the business, destination, etc., of marked that inder Chinese law names with particular regarding nouncing sentence the Judge re from his report that his crafi wai at anchor at the ferry wharf, Tung

their guests. A group of police Wang would have incurred the Lung Chau Island, Castle Peak,

entered the inn in question to en-death penalty. As a deterrent to when a dinghy came alongside and

quire for Wang, suspected of arm-others who might be thinking of two men boarded the junk leaving

ed robbery. By the front door was coming to Weihaiwai for criminal two men in the dinghy. One of the

the Manager: behind the counter purposes, he would indict the The small gunboat Trap Soon intruders produced a revolver and

the accountant and near him, heaviest penalty permitted by will be launched to-day (Wednes-held up those on board, namely the

engaged in reading, a guest. The British In-penal servitude for day) from the Kwong Fat Dock master his wife, son and a

constables were assured that Wanz life. yard. Mr. Shu Chung Lau, ice-daughter, M

had left the inn that morning and The second man proceeded to cut

The jury had no difficulty in "Commander, of the Canton Navy,

had not returned. A search of the bringing in a verdict against Cheng will be present to represent his the anchor rope and the master The Society for the Prevention premises was sleo without any Pei Chen and Wang Chao Chen Government as Admiral Chen Chak realising that the thieves intended of Cruelty to Animals in giving a result... is too busy to leave Canton.

to kidnap them and sail off with fancy dress ball at the Feninsula The constables again insisted on that they did receive, comfort, accessories after the fact in The Taap Boon's dimensions are his craft, rushed at the robbers. Hotel on March 8th, in aid of its the probability of Wang being in harbour, assist and maintain the as follows: Length, 124 feet; width. The man with the revolver fired afunda.

the house, to be again met by blank said Wang Seu Tang, well know- 14. feet. Her displacement, is just shot, which grazed the nose of the In years gone by, the SPCA denial. Another group of police-ing that he had committed the said over 200 tons, and her armament muster's son. The owner then hitve given similar functions, which men entered and the cross-examina offence." The learned Judge, ob consists of 4 machine guns, four jumped overboard to escape and have been highly successful and tion continued. After half-au-hour served that it was important for pom-poms, and, in the bows, rae get, assistance. The wife, in the much appreciated by residents. It of this sort of thing the man by all to bear in mind that to assist 7.5 centimeters gun. She will carry meantime, was, shouting for help. is therefore welcome news that the stove laid aside his book and aariminal seeking to escape from n crew of about 100. Like ber All this proved too much for the another such event is to be held, came forward to assure the police justice was a serious offence and, sister ship, the Kin Yu, she will be robbers and they made off in the The function is under the patron that it was a fact that Wong 5su as a warning to others, he passed used for the Delta, and Kwangtung dinghy Chase was given but to age of His Excellency the Governor, Tang, had felt that.... morning, sentence of 18 months' imprison: rivers patrol.

no avail

Bir Cecil, Clementi, K.C.M.G.

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